Better a house, though a hut it be,
A man is master at home;
A pair of goats and a patched-up roof
Are better far than begging.

The same, tr. Olive Bray in The Elder or Poetic Edda, Part I (London: Printed for the Viking Club, 1908),
p. 71:

One's own house is best, though small it may be;
each man is master at home;
though he have but two goats and a bark-thatched hut
'tis better than craving a boon.

The same, tr. D. E. Martin Clarke in The Hávamál: With Selections from Other Poems of The Edda (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1923; rpt. 2011), p. 53:

A house of your own is better, though it is only a little one. Every man is a person of consequence at home. Even if you only have two goats and a cottage thatched with fibre it is better than begging.